Clinical Supervisor; Band 6 Nurse Practitioner

Upcoming Recruitment

NHS 24 is building a talent pipeline for future Clinical Supervisor opportunities and is inviting expressions of interest from experienced, NMC‑registered, adult nurses who are passionate about delivering high‑quality clinical supervision within our telehealth service. While vacancies may not be immediately available, joining the pipeline allows candidates to begin the recruitment journey early, be considered ahead of future hiring rounds, and stay connected with our teams as posts, rotas, and training cohorts become available.

This is an excellent opportunity to learn more about the role, explore development pathways, and position yourself for upcoming opportunities within NHS 24.

As NHS Scotland's unique provider of a national tele-health and tele-care service, we are responsible for the delivery of health advice and information by telephone and online services to the population of Scotland 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. NHS 24 is a patient-focused service providing the people of Scotland with triage, advice, guidance, referral and information on health and healthcare services.

Our Regional Centres are located at Aberdeen, Cardonald, Clydebank, Dundee and South Queensferry.
This role is advertised for our Clydebank Regional Centre.

• As the service has evolved, we have been introducing new ways of working and there is now a unique opportunity for Nurses to perform high quality telephone assessments, but also to provide Clinical Supervision to members within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Act as an autonomous practitioner providing a comprehensive telephone triage and clinical assessment service to patients and/or their carers/relatives resulting in a safe and appropriate clinical decision.
• Provide real time clinical support to NHS
  24 frontline staff resulting in safe, appropriate and person-centred outcomes.
• Facilitate the provision of accurate healthcare information, self-care/health improvement advice or, where applicable, referral to the appropriate level and location of care, in order to meet the holistic and therapeutic requirements of the patient/carer.
• You will use a variety of different models to deliver clinical supervision to non- clinical staff.

• You will be registered as an Adult nurse on Part 1 of the NMC register.
• You will possess excellent clinical decision-making skills, with the ability to provide continuous clinical supervision and leadership.
• Extensive post registration experience, preferably within an acute or primary care setting, with a broad range of knowledge across a number of specialties.
• Critical decision-making skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

NHS 24 offers a total reward package, with a permanent contract on Band 6 £ 41,608 - £50,702* (pro rata for part-time hours). Placement on salary scale is dependent on confirmation of previous relevant NHS service.

Competitive salary enhancements for working unsocial hours are in addition to the above basic starting salary of £41,608, this means that the following hourly rates would be applicable -

• Basic Hourly Rate of £21.57
• Saturday / After 8pm Weekday Hourly Rate of £32.34
• Sunday / Public Holiday Hourly Rate of £43.13

As NHS 24 is predominately an out of hours employer, this means that actual earnings will include payments made for working evenings, nights, weekend shifts and public holidays.

As an example, Clinical Supervisors, on a starting salary of £41,608 working 36, 30, 24 or 16 hours rotas with 5 out of 8 weekends, could expect to receive estimated earning as follows -

Contracted hours: 37, Monthly Basic Pay*: £3,647, Monthly Enhancements: £1,248, Monthly total*: £4,715

Contracted hours: 30, Monthly Basic Pay*: £2,811, Monthly Enhancements: £1,011, Monthly total*: £3,822

Contracted hours: 24, Monthly Basic Pay*: £2,248, Monthly Enhancements: £809, Monthly total*: £3,057

* Figures shown are before deductions

16, 24, 30, 36 hours/week - hours are worked on average across an 8-week rota pattern.

• 16hrs- 8/8 weekends…